What a heart melting story. The power of adoption and the bond that it creates is AMAZING.Especially if you adopt a pet from a kill shelter. They can smell death and very few shelters treat the animals humanely. Some people think they are doing the best thing for their "pet" when they surrender it to a shelter but sadly it has a higher chance of being killed than being adopted. Some people just don't understand and it is stories like this one that encourage people to try adoption. Some of the pictures of dogs in shelters and then the pictures after they have been adopted are mind blowing. The dogs don't even look like the same dogs. They aren't standing in a cold, scary cage unsure of what may happen next. They are once again feeling love and joy like they should and like they probably knew before they were dumped off.
I volunteer at my local shelter and it is heartbreaking. It has an 80% kill rate. Every weekend there are new dogs in the cages and the gentle, sweet ones or the ones that were coming down with the elusive "kennel cough" are all gone simply because someone cared for them at one point but that someone didn't fulfill their responsibility as a pet owner. My town just got a low cost spay/neuter clinic so every hopes the kill rate at the county shelter will start to decline. But truly it starts with education and spay/neuter.
